How to build the HackRF on Windows

https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/hackrf

GitHub - greatscottgadgets/hackrf: low cost software radio platform

 

Prerequisties for Visual Studio:

• cmake-2.8.12.1 or later from https://cmake.org/download/

Download | CMake

• libusbx-1.0.18 or later

PS C:\dev\vcpkg> .\vcpkg install libusb:x64-windows

Computing installation plan...
The following packages will be built and installed:
    libusb[core]:x64-windows -> 1.0.26.11791#3
  * pkgconf[core]:x64-windows -> 1.8.0#5
  * vcpkg-msbuild[core]:x64-windows -> 2023-08-08
  * vcpkg-pkgconfig-get-modules[core]:x64-windows -> 2023-02-25
Additional packages (*) will be modified to complete this operation.
Detecting compiler hash for triplet x64-windows...
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libusb provides CMake targets:

    find_package(libusb CONFIG REQUIRED)
    target_include_directories(main PRIVATE ${LIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIRS})
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE ${LIBUSB_LIBRARIES})

• fftw-3.3.5 or later

PS C:\dev\vcpkg> .\vcpkg search fftw3
dlib[fftw3]                               fftw3 support for dlib
fftw3                    3.3.10#8         FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transfor...
fftw3[avx]                                Builds part of the library with avx, sse2, sse
fftw3[avx2]                               Builds part of the library with avx2, fma, avx, sse2, sse
fftw3[openmp]                             Builds openmp enabled lib
fftw3[sse]                                Builds part of the library with sse
fftw3[sse2]                               Builds part of the library with sse2, sse
fftw3[threads]                            Enable threads in fftw3
matplotplusplus[fftw]                     fftw3 support for Matplot++

PS C:\dev\vcpkg> .\vcpkg install fftw3:x64-windows
Computing installation plan...
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fftw3 provides CMake targets:

    # this is heuristically generated, and may not be correct
    find_package(FFTW3 CONFIG REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE FFTW3::fftw3)

    find_package(FFTW3f CONFIG REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE FFTW3::fftw3f)

    find_package(FFTW3l CONFIG REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE FFTW3::fftw3l)

• pthread from https://github.com/GerHobbelt/pthread-win32

GitHub - GerHobbelt/pthread-win32: clone / cvs-import of pthread-win32 + local tweaks (including MSVC2008 - MSVC2022 project fil

cmake

hackrf\host\build> cmake ../ -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 \
	-DLIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\Dev\vcpkg\packages\libusb_x64-windows\include\libusb-1.0 \
    -DLIBUSB_LIBRARIES=C:\Dev\vcpkg\packages\libusb_x64-windows\lib\libusb-1.0.lib \
    -DTHREADS_PTHREADS_INCLUDE_DIR=D:\Dev\HackRF\pthread-win32 \
    -DTHREADS_PTHREADS_WIN32_LIBRARY=D:\Dev\HackRF\pthread-win32\windows\VS2022\bin\Release-Unicode-64bit-x64\pthread.lib \
    -DFFTW_INCLUDES=C:\Dev\vcpkg\packages\fftw3_x64-windows\include \
    -DFFTW_LIBRARIES=C:\Dev\vcpkg\packages\fftw3_x64-windows\lib\fftw3f.lib

CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:3 (cmake_minimum_required):
  Compatibility with CMake < 2.8.12 will be removed from a future version of
  CMake.

  Update the VERSION argument <min> value or use a ...<max> suffix to tell
  CMake that the project does not need compatibility with older versions.


-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22621.0 to target Windows 10.0.19045.
CMake Deprecation Warning at libhackrf/CMakeLists.txt:24 (cmake_minimum_required):
  Compatibility with CMake < 2.8.12 will be removed from a future version of
  CMake.

  Update the VERSION argument <min> value or use a ...<max> suffix to tell
  CMake that the project does not need compatibility with older versions.


CMake Deprecation Warning at hackrf-tools/CMakeLists.txt:24 (cmake_minimum_required):
  Compatibility with CMake < 2.8.12 will be removed from a future version of
  CMake.

  Update the VERSION argument <min> value or use a ...<max> suffix to tell
  CMake that the project does not need compatibility with older versions.


-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: D:/Dev/Defense/HackRF/hackrf/host/build

...

2023-08-30  02:46            18,307 ALL_BUILD.vcxproj
2023-08-30  02:06               288 ALL_BUILD.vcxproj.filters
2023-08-30  02:11               168 ALL_BUILD.vcxproj.user
2023-08-30  02:46            15,235 CMakeCache.txt
2023-08-30  02:48    <DIR>          CMakeFiles
2023-08-30  02:06             1,716 cmake_install.cmake
2023-08-30  02:06             1,486 cmake_uninstall.cmake
2023-08-30  02:46    <DIR>          hackrf-tools
2023-08-30  02:06            16,620 HackRF.sln
2023-08-30  02:06            10,139 INSTALL.vcxproj
2023-08-30  02:06               530 INSTALL.vcxproj.filters
2023-08-30  02:46    <DIR>          libhackrf
2023-08-30  02:46            19,742 uninstall.vcxproj
2023-08-30  02:06               722 uninstall.vcxproj.filters
2023-08-30  02:11    <DIR>          x64
2023-08-30  02:46            20,128 ZERO_CHECK.vcxproj
2023-08-30  02:06               531 ZERO_CHECK.vcxproj.filters

 

HackRF.sln 파일을 Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022로 열여서 컴파일!

세 폴더에 컴파일된 파일들을 한 폴더에 모아서 사용하면 도작함!

 

TODO: pthread 까지 vcpkg로 설치해서 사용해 보면 좋을 듯